Unpacked Standards Quotes & Sayings

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. — Danny Boyle

Do you remember which way I was heading? — Charles Hartshorne

You're an assignment, not an assignation. Soon as I get your pretty boy ass through the Wilderness and deliver you to the Outpost, you're no more than a stain to spit-shine off my boots. — Rie Warren

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. — Robert McKee

Life is a powerful force, it either make you or break you". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

He declined to let us take our air rifles to the Landing (I had already begun to think of shooting Francis) — Harper Lee

Either the future is subject to chance
in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other
or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
Quintus Tullius Cicero — Anthony Everitt

Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman could have snored so much. — Charles Dickens

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can. — Fiona Apple

Brooklyn is a very weird borough. — Keeth Smart

The United States makes large claims for itself, among them the claim that the nation is the model for a society based simultaneously on democracy and multiethnicity. It's certainly no exaggeration to say that on the success or failure of this principle much else depends. But there must be better ways of affirming it than by clinging to an insipid parody of a two-party system that counts as a virtue the ability to escape thorny questions and postpone larger ones. — Christopher Hitchens

A man is the origin of his action. — Aristotle.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. — Richard P. Feynman

Die! Die! Die in this love!
If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed.
Die! Die! Don't fear the death of that which is known
If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless. — Rumi